The Indians had a newspaper, do you realize? If Mr. Stanford was to mention it, he’d probably say it was a forum for discussing scalping techniques and how to cut the hearts out of white men.
Our ancestors didn’t like the competition with the Cherokee. Civilized Indians threatened the existence of the young country which not so long before had achieved independence.
And everything ended in 1838 when, under The Law on the Removal of Indians, the Cherokee were sent on a ‘Trail of Tears’ to a new homeland in the desert valleys of Oklahoma.
On the road more than half of the tribe died of cold, hunger and disease.
Interestingly, their black slaves, and even some whites living in the Cherokee Nation, moved with the Cherokee. And so our ancestors breathed a sigh of relief, having finally got
